Ninja Fast Dictionary

in Web/Tech | May 27th, 2008 4 Comments

Long ago, I got in the habit of using Mer­ri­am-Web­ster’s online dic­tio­nary. And I’ve suf­fered through the painful­ly slow page loads for the bet­ter part of a decade. But then I stum­bled upon a bet­ter alter­na­tive. Nin­ja­Words is “a real­ly fast dic­tio­nary … fast like a Nin­ja.” Give it a try. You’ll enjoy the speed.

PS Anoth­er cool option is Definr.com, which is fast and fea­tures a handy auto-com­plete func­tion. Thanks to a read­er for flag­ging that one for us.

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  • Tiago Pavan says:
    May 27, 2008 at 10:23 am

    I sup­pose definr.com is even faster with its “auto-com­plete” func­tion as we type.

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  • richard says:
    May 27, 2008 at 5:17 pm

    definr.com is amaz­ing­ly quick, but the def­i­n­i­tion of the first word I tried (propaedeu­tic) con­tained a typo. There are no links or email address­es for feed­back (at least none I could find). It’s always a bit scary to use a tool that pro­vides zero feed­back to its main­tain­er. But I guess this thing is just a show­boat for Rails any­way.

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  • Shah says:
    July 28, 2008 at 8:25 pm

    It’s real­ly fast but it seems it’s not com­pre­hen­sive. also Auto-Com­plete is a great fea­ture which is miss­ing. I pre­fer http://WWW.AZDIC.COM

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  • Serge says:
    January 29, 2009 at 1:45 pm

    A new one is http://www.memidex.com : “a free online dictionary/thesaurus with exten­sive cross-ref­er­enc­ing, com­plete inflec­tions, sim­ple inter­face, and fre­quent updates. It’s fast too.” No auto-sug­gest (yet) though.

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